“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.” — William Wordsworth. Here are 48 Best Wall Quotes.
Wall Quotes
1.“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” — William Goldman
2.“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” — Joseph Fort Newton
3.“Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls.” — Morgan Rhodes
4.“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.” — Darnell Lamont Walker
5.“No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.” — Shannon L. Alder
6.“Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.” — Jeanette Winterson
7.“Walls don't fall without effort.” — Neal Shusterman
8.“Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with.” — Rasmenia Massoud
9.“I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.” — Kimberly Novosel
10.“We're exploring the possibility of building a wall to stem the exodus." "Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.” — Neal Shusterman
11.“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.” — Suzy Kassem
12.“Life. We'd long known it was cruel.” — Nova Ren Suma
Wall Quotes
13.“We can't talk about it, or I know she won't so I don't even try, but it's what goes unsaid between people that builds up like masonry. You have to either knock the bricks out with other things or let them keep stacking until eventually, you are alone in a room.” — Justin Taylor
14.“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.” — William Wordsworth
15.“Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall.” — Eric Weiner
16.“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.” — Markus Zusak
17.“Build bridges, not walls.” — Suzy Kassem
18.“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
19.“The walls were painted red, and there was the painter up ahead, that candle-maned woman carving her way through the darkness, and carving her way through everyone she thought the darkness owned.” — Dean F. Wilson
20.“An end is only an end because we haven’t taken the time to find the door in the wall.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
21.“I started to build a home with all the walls I was putting up for myself, but when I was finished, I realized I had built a cage and didn’t make a key.” — Lidia Longorio
22.“Where the light was strongest, there were no buildings.” — H.G. Parry
23.“By refusing to abide by a wall, map, property line, border, identity document, or legal regime, mobile people upset the state's schemes of exclusion, control, and violence. They do this simply by moving.” — Reece Jones
24.“There are those who build walls, and those who break them down. I'm on the side of those who break them down.” — Marty Rubin
Wall Quotes
25.“Not the perception of the proportion of things outside of us but the experience of identification with whatever's outside of us (this is obviously a physical impossibility; that's why it's a mental responsibility).” — John Cage
26.“How in the world are we supposed to engage life when we spend all of our life building walls to protect ourselves from the very thing that we say we want to engage? The answer is, I think, understanding that God doesn’t need walls but we need Him.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
27.“Standing there are walls and windows, staring at me.” — Suman Pokhrel
28.“In life, we sometimes have to place ourselves under a microscope and examine our thoughts, our heart, and our spirit. When we do this, we tear down the walls we have built to shelter ourselves from becoming vulnerable to love we have for others. We have to tear down these walls brick by brick. And, if in the end, someone knows our thoughts about them, our love for them, and how our spirit soars for them, then we have to know within our being that it is all right.” — Jeffrey G. Duarte
29.“Draw a picture on a wall; now that wall is no longer a wall, it is a living extension of art heaven!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
30.“You can dress up Hate but you can’t stop its stench.” — irfan ishaq
31.“While walls provide a boundary and protection, they also exclude people and make intimacy ('into-me-see') difficult.” — Sue Hawkins
32.“In the insanity of the cube we feel safe within its confines, yet the insanity is believing that confines equate to safety.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
33.“You can give up the walls of your house, but never give up the windows!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
34.“Home never has enough distractions, only walls and mirrors.” — Rasmenia Massoud
35.“Foundations are meant to be built and walls are meant to be pulled down.” — Anthony T. Hincks
36.“I don’t really RE-define things in my life as much as I UN-define them. Instead of changing the placement of psychological walls, I remove them.” — Steve Maraboli
Wall Quotes
37.“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license to build whatever it pleases in whatever manner it pleases, I will find that I have confused safety with imprisonment.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
38.“I’ve burned the bridges and built many walls instead.” — Samiha Totanji
39.“I am not cold. I wasn’t ever cold. My warmth was hidden far away from anything that could bring hurt because I knew I didn’t have the inner scaffolding to endure any more hurt in those protected places.” — Roxane Gay
40.“Every wall that would entrap me has a door that would free me. And I languish because the fear of freedom often leaves me preferring the familiarity of the wall.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
41.“Spirituality is not making walls in the names of religions and prophets but to make more roads and bridges to reconnect with humanity.” — Amit Ray
42.“It takes as much time to build walls sturdy enough for wallflowers like you and me to lean against as it does for us to bloom.” — Ayokunle Falomo
43.“Greatness is not measured by the walls we build but by the bridges.” — DaShanne Stokes
44.“Every wall that I build to lock the world out is yet another wall that I’ve built that locks me in. And in the most heinous kind of imprisonment imaginable, I find that I have become both warden and inmate.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
45.“But my walls were so high for a coward to climb.” — Samiha Totanji
46.“If there’s one thing that will stop people from achieving their goals, it’s a wall. However, as I see it, without a wall there’s no place to build a door.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
47.“Well basically,’ said Nell, ‘I want to question the value of confinement. An enclosed community is toxic. It festers. It stagnates. The wrong people thrive there. The sort of people who actually like being walled in.” — Lucy Hughes-Hallett
48.“You see the wall he's building around him. You don’t see the prisoner he's turning into.” — Nitya Prakash
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